Warning! This article contains spoilers for Severance season 2's episode 8.Hampton inhales a strange substance when Harmony Cobel meets him in Severance season 2's episode 8, raising many questions about the Salt's Neck town's prevalent drug use and its connection with Lumon. Unlike most other episodes in the Apple TV+ sci-fi show, which unfold in or around the Lumon office, Severance season 2's episode 8 takes viewers far away from the main setting to reveal several secrets about Cobel's past and her connection with Lumon. With this, the Severance season 2 episode takes place in Salt's Neck, the quaint village where Harmony Cobel spent her early years.

Moments after Cobel arrives in the town, she notices people inhaling an unknown substance. Much later, Hampton offers her the same drug, and she seems to know what it is. After seeing the two season 2 characters get high on the drug, it becomes hard not to wonder what it is. A closer look at what Harmony reveals about her past and her Lumon history suggests that the use of the drug in Salt's Lake has deeper ties with the central company in the series.